I'm surprised not a lot of people know about the download attribute for a elements. Please help spread the word about it! You can have a hidden html link, and fake a click on it.
If the html link has the download attribute it downloads the file, not views it, no matter what. Here's the code.
It will download a cat picture if it can find it. I recommend using the download attribute for download instead of jQuery:. If you are already using jQuery, you could take adventage of it to produce a smaller snippet A jQuery version of Andrew's answer:. This could be helpful if you are not require to navigate another page. This is base javascript function, so can be used in any platform where backend is in Javascript.
Only seven years later here comes a one line jQuery solution using a form instead of an iframe or link:. I don't know if the question is just too old, but setting window. Maybe just have your javascript open a page that just downloads a file, like when you drag a download link to a new tab:. There are so many little things that can happen when trying to download a file. The inconsistency between browsers alone is a nightmare. I ended up using this great little library.
Nice thing about it is that its flexible for not only urls but for client side data you want to download. You can also use the package fs-browsers. It has nice and easy download method for client-side. It goes like this:. The answer submitted by hitesh on Dec 30 '13 does in fact work. It just requires a little adjusting:. The PHP file can call itself. In other words, just create a file named saveAs. These functions are used in stacktrace. That way, the browser handles the click event naturally, which avoids any code weirdness:.
This is actually the "chrome" way solution for firefox I am not tested it on other browsers, so please leave comments about the compilability. I have had good results with using a FORM tag since it works everywhere and you don't have to create temporarily files on server.
The method works like this. The best part is it does not leave any residual files on your server since everything is created and destroyed on the fly!
Using good ol' Javascript, you can use this feature to download the file directly. The download attribute of the anchor tag should point to the link where the file to be downloaded is hosted. Now trigger the click event programmatically.
Clicking on the anchor tag will trigger the download. Additional Information : Nothing fancy in the above code, just client-side JavaScript which works from Chrome Devtools' Console, but powerful and also opens up a lot of possibilities like webpage crawling.
For e. Note: The below code is purely for educational purposes only. Make sure you enable pop-ups for that site, else your anchor clicks will get disabled by the default pop-up blocker.
Note: This is not just limited to anchor clicks, you can download almost anything you find on your webpage. If something image, audio, video loads on your webpage, you can probably write a script to download it, even if the provision is not provided to you from the UI. I was looking for a way to download a file using jquery without having to set the file url in the href attribute from the beginning.
I use rakaloof's solution without JQuery because you don't need it here. Thank you for the idea! Here is a vanillaJS form-based solution:. I know I'm late for the party, but I'd like to share my solution which is variation of Imagine Breaker's solution above. I tried to use his solution, because his solution seems most simple and easy to me. But like other said, it didn't work for some browsers, so I put some variation on it by using jquery.
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